Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he... The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ... - Página 411por Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 432 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...of logs from the " Settler's ellum "— Last of its timber — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips; Their blunt ends frizzledlike celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linch-pin too,... | |
| James McKeen Cattell - 1921 - 596 páginas
...of logs from the "Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between...lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; 'Knot-grass (Knotweed), Polygonum sp.; Plantain, Plantago major, L. i°Larch, Larix laricina (Du Roi)... | |
| Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 páginas
...of logs from the "Settler's ellum,"— Last of its timber,— they couldn't sell 'em. Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between...top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through." "There!" said the Deacon, "naow she'll... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 páginas
...these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their...top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through." — "There!" said the Deacon, "naow she'll... | |
| Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 páginas
...of logs from the 'Settler's ellum,' — Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between...top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he 'put her through.' 'There!' said the Deacon, 'naow she'll... | |
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 páginas
...of logs from the "Settler's ellum,"6 — Last of its timber,— they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between...top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through." "There!" said the Deacon, "naow she'll... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2005 - 341 páginas
...for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," Last of its timber. — they couldn't sell 'em,— Never an ax had seen their chips....And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their Want ends frizzled like celery-tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin... | |
| 472 páginas
...logs from the "Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between...top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through." "There I " said the Deacon, "naow she... | |
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